The entire idea behind the NSA isn't to spy on Americans. It's to spy on EVERYONE. They spend a fortune monitoring all they can on just about every country on the planet.
The phone companies do charge upfront/monthly fees for those micro-cells, but when pushed, they will often reduce or wave the charges for them to retain a phone customer. You might call your provider (be it Sprint, Verizon, etc) and talk to the retentions department.
Don't worry, It will only be a few months before we can replace all the satellites. All we have to do is rush order all the parts and have them flown in overnight and... oh.
It's probably also worth mentioning sex determination in reptiles, which is sometimes determined by the temperature the eggs were incubated at, rather than simply by what chromosomes were transferred. Biology can be a wild thing.
I'd agree, but leave off the part about 'HD'. An HD antenna is no different then an analog antenna that's been in use for many decades. People not knowing any better pay extra money because the box says HD or someone who doesn't know any better tells them they need and 'HD' antenna. They need a TV antenna. Period.
Or if you are on Verizon and willing to pay extra for the feature, they allow you to use the Palm Pre like a myfi to feed up to 5 devices. Plus the interface for doing it is the easiest/nicest out there. No worries about knocks on your door.
There are a good number of folks with egg allergies (many vaccines are produced in eggs, and contain a small amount of egg proteins which would cause nasty reactions on those allergic to them), compromised immune systems, etc, that can't take the vaccine. These idiots put them at additional risk by not being vaccinated out of irrational and dis proven belief that vaccines cause autism.
Somehow I really, really doubt you went to MIT, Harvard and Oxford. If you went to any of those institutions, you'd know the connections you make during school at those types of institutes are invaluable for networking later in life.
Well, you might be stupid enough to not want to hear any formula's, theories or reasoning, but for the non-daft folks out there...
R&D, building of templates and other things for manufacture are going to cost a fixed amount of money.
When you build a specialty device and sell 1000 of them, you can spread the cost out over those 1000 units.
When someone else makes a general use device using the same technology and sells 10,000,000 units, they can spread the R&D and manufacturing setup over 10,000,000 units.
A jump of 1000x in price suddenly isn't out of the realm of possibilities when you take logic into account rather than just saying 'there is no justification and I'm not listening to logic, formulas or theories' like the parent moron.
No mention of what phones though. They might be getting the Pre and Pixie, the Pre Plus and Pixie plus (there was no word how long the 'exclusive' deal is with Verizon on those, but it is definitely limited, just as it was on Sprint), or something else.
WebOS just looks more elegant and feels more friendly and intuitive than Android. The gestures it uses make navigation and use easy. I was just listening to the Engadget podcast from CES and they were talking about how much nicer the gestures were to use than the 4 button android interface. Plus the card interface makes multitasking and closing programs a snap, while they were bummed at how to actually close an app they no longer wanted in Android, they had to pull up a task-killer program to kill it off.
As for the N900, it is very phone. It's a bit brickish, but I might deal with that. The ports of native linux apps on X-windows is a big bonus. The real problem for me was it's only on T-mobile, and I don't happen to live in one of the very limited number of cities with good coverage by them, plus I travel to rural areas not infrequently, and they've got zilch there.
You should play with a Pre as well as a Droid before going with the N900. This is a great time for smart phone buyers. Lots of good choices. No one should want any of the phone makers to fail. More competition on their part is better for us.
Oh, The other nice thing about the Pre is it will now be available on Sprint, Verizon and AT&T, so you aren't so limited by worries about coverage with the provider that uses the phone. The N900 is only good if you have T-Mobile coverage. The Droid is limited to Verizon, but then again that's not much of a limitation as Verizon is more likely to have good coverage in your area than the others.
I think a large part of that is due to the fact that the smaller than 10" netbooks tended to have a smaller size keyboard than the 10'ers. The keyboard size on the 10" is the smallest size that allows realistic touch typing for most folks. Smaller than that and you might as well be two-finger typing on your smartphone (which is much more portable than a netbook)
You are measuring the weight of the entire herb part you harvested. That does not mean it it going to correlate accurately with the amount of active ingredient in the herb. Some plants due to genetic diversity, growing conditions, time since harvest, etc, etc, may have more or less of the active ingredient. So when you take a herb, you may measure the weight of the herb parts, but you are only guessing at how much active ingredient that much weight of that particular batch will have.
So far there is 1, count em 1, phone running Maemo. The N900.
And TODAY was the first day any customers anywhere were able to go into a store and purchase a commercial unit. So far just at their flagship store in NYC.
The only US carrier in the US that the N900 has compatible frequencies for for 3G service is T-mobile.
Why you think US carriers are 'sewn up' so they won't carry then I have no idea.
I think the Droid campaign has been brilliant so far, and has stirred up a lot of interest and buzz about the phone.
As a Pre owner, I wish Palm had done something like that instead of using the strange scary-lady ads that didn't do anything for anyone.
My bet is when the Droid is actually launched, you will see those ads showing what it can do that the iPhone can't and why it's cool.
What has me puzzled is why Nokia hasn't got any commercials out for it's N900. It runs a Debian Linux variant, and runs full flash right now, and it's hardware is superior to the Droids in some ways. Why they aren't shouting about it from the rooftops, I don't know.
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The entire idea behind the NSA isn't to spy on Americans. It's to spy on EVERYONE. They spend a fortune monitoring all they can on just about every country on the planet.
The phone companies do charge upfront/monthly fees for those micro-cells, but when pushed, they will often reduce or wave the charges for them to retain a phone customer. You might call your provider (be it Sprint, Verizon, etc) and talk to the retentions department.
Don't worry, It will only be a few months before we can replace all the satellites. All we have to do is rush order all the parts and have them flown in overnight and... oh.
It's probably also worth mentioning sex determination in reptiles, which is sometimes determined by the temperature the eggs were incubated at, rather than simply by what chromosomes were transferred. Biology can be a wild thing.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=experts-temperature-sex-determination-reptiles
I'd agree, but leave off the part about 'HD'. An HD antenna is no different then an analog antenna that's been in use for many decades. People not knowing any better pay extra money because the box says HD or someone who doesn't know any better tells them they need and 'HD' antenna. They need a TV antenna. Period.
Or if you are on Verizon and willing to pay extra for the feature, they allow you to use the Palm Pre like a myfi to feed up to 5 devices. Plus the interface for doing it is the easiest/nicest out there. No worries about knocks on your door.
There are a good number of folks with egg allergies (many vaccines are produced in eggs, and contain a small amount of egg proteins which would cause nasty reactions on those allergic to them), compromised immune systems, etc, that can't take the vaccine. These idiots put them at additional risk by not being vaccinated out of irrational and dis proven belief that vaccines cause autism.
Somehow I really, really doubt you went to MIT, Harvard and Oxford. If you went to any of those institutions, you'd know the connections you make during school at those types of institutes are invaluable for networking later in life.
Well, you might be stupid enough to not want to hear any formula's, theories or reasoning, but for the non-daft folks out there...
R&D, building of templates and other things for manufacture are going to cost a fixed amount of money.
When you build a specialty device and sell 1000 of them, you can spread the cost out over those 1000 units.
When someone else makes a general use device using the same technology and sells 10,000,000 units, they can spread the R&D and manufacturing setup over 10,000,000 units.
A jump of 1000x in price suddenly isn't out of the realm of possibilities when you take logic into account rather than just saying 'there is no justification and I'm not listening to logic, formulas or theories' like the parent moron.
They announced it 2 days ago at CES.
No mention of what phones though. They might be getting the Pre and Pixie, the Pre Plus and Pixie plus (there was no word how long the 'exclusive' deal is with Verizon on those, but it is definitely limited, just as it was on Sprint), or something else.
People have been importing them from Europe for a couple Months. They have GSM Pre's there. Canada? GSM Unlocked Pre's.
Oh, and AT&T will be getting WebOS phones shortly.
Um, that was supposed to be The N900 is a very nice phone.
WebOS just looks more elegant and feels more friendly and intuitive than Android. The gestures it uses make navigation and use easy. I was just listening to the Engadget podcast from CES and they were talking about how much nicer the gestures were to use than the 4 button android interface. Plus the card interface makes multitasking and closing programs a snap, while they were bummed at how to actually close an app they no longer wanted in Android, they had to pull up a task-killer program to kill it off.
As for the N900, it is very phone. It's a bit brickish, but I might deal with that. The ports of native linux apps on X-windows is a big bonus. The real problem for me was it's only on T-mobile, and I don't happen to live in one of the very limited number of cities with good coverage by them, plus I travel to rural areas not infrequently, and they've got zilch there.
You should play with a Pre as well as a Droid before going with the N900. This is a great time for smart phone buyers. Lots of good choices. No one should want any of the phone makers to fail. More competition on their part is better for us.
Oh, The other nice thing about the Pre is it will now be available on Sprint, Verizon and AT&T, so you aren't so limited by worries about coverage with the provider that uses the phone. The N900 is only good if you have T-Mobile coverage. The Droid is limited to Verizon, but then again that's not much of a limitation as Verizon is more likely to have good coverage in your area than the others.
A dying technology? It's 7 months old you moron.
Of course it's shady what else did you expect?
Anyone familiar with MySQL knows 'integrity' is not on the top of Monty's list of priorities.
Data integrity, personal integrity, bah.
I think a large part of that is due to the fact that the smaller than 10" netbooks tended to have a smaller size keyboard than the 10'ers. The keyboard size on the 10" is the smallest size that allows realistic touch typing for most folks. Smaller than that and you might as well be two-finger typing on your smartphone (which is much more portable than a netbook)
Yep, Tigerdirect just sent me an email ad this morning with a netbook for $249 U.S.
The article is sheer FUD.
You are measuring the weight of the entire herb part you harvested. That does not mean it it going to correlate accurately with the amount of active ingredient in the herb. Some plants due to genetic diversity, growing conditions, time since harvest, etc, etc, may have more or less of the active ingredient. So when you take a herb, you may measure the weight of the herb parts, but you are only guessing at how much active ingredient that much weight of that particular batch will have.
Really it's all negative? So when it gets warmer and the snow near the poles melt, reflecting less light and heating the earth, that's negative?
And when the permafrost melts on all the bogs over in old soviet and china territories, releasing tons of pent-up greenhouse gasses, that's negative?
Do some research.
What in the world is that supposed to mean?
So far there is 1, count em 1, phone running Maemo. The N900.
And TODAY was the first day any customers anywhere were able to go into a store and purchase a commercial unit. So far just at their flagship store in NYC.
The only US carrier in the US that the N900 has compatible frequencies for for 3G service is T-mobile.
Why you think US carriers are 'sewn up' so they won't carry then I have no idea.
I had that happen. I specifically called them to have them block data service.
The next 2 months each had data charges that I had to call them up and insist they remove the charges and enforce the block.
Verizon sucks. I never want to use them again. They nickel and dime you worse than any other provider.
Because there are many cheaper things to do for entertainment for 10-12 hours.
For example, Netflix lets you rent more hours of movies cheaper than that.
Heck, the game under review in this topic costs $49 for 100+ hours of gameplay. That's ~$0.50/hour. Your 'bargain' is ~$2.00/hour.
It's not an exorbitant price by any means, but I don't consider it a bargain.
I'm not sure why you think PalmOS is a joke. It's a nice Linux varient. The problem with it is it is hobbled by a handicapped SDK at the moment.
Not if you're a necrophiliac.
I think the Droid campaign has been brilliant so far, and has stirred up a lot of interest and buzz about the phone.
As a Pre owner, I wish Palm had done something like that instead of using the strange scary-lady ads that didn't do anything for anyone.
My bet is when the Droid is actually launched, you will see those ads showing what it can do that the iPhone can't and why it's cool.
What has me puzzled is why Nokia hasn't got any commercials out for it's N900. It runs a Debian Linux variant, and runs full flash right now, and it's hardware is superior to the Droids in some ways. Why they aren't shouting about it from the rooftops, I don't know.